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Denuvo-Free Devil May Cry 5 Reportedly Improves the Game's Performance by Up to 20FPS
It appears that Denuvo's anti-tamper tech has significant impact on Devil May Cry 5's performance, and a Denuvo-free .exe game file has now surfaced online.
The Devil May Cry 5 .exe file was actually released by Capcom following the game's release earlier today, but has now been pulled. However, the file can still be downloaded through the Steam console. Several users are reporting FPS improvements by up to 20FPS while using the Denuvo-free exe file.
Sound familiar? Devil May Cry 5 is the game AMD demoed running on a Radeon VII GPU at its CES 2019 keynote. I wonder if they were running it with DRM.
Average frame rates are only part of the story when it comes to a game's performance. Minimum frame rates, percentiles, etc. can measure frame stuttering. A significant boost in a game's performance can also increase minimum frame rates.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by Nerdfest on Sunday March 10 2019, @05:02AM (2 children)
Keeping private information private is also a vastly different beast than trying to have people run code and not be able to see what they're running ... or something. Basically, encryption works, DRM tries to use it to do the impossible.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 10 2019, @08:05PM
DRM and Encrypted databases both.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Sunday March 10 2019, @11:30PM
A company trying to restrict how you use their movie file is no different than a user trying to restrict how a company uses their vacation photos. You seem to be drawing a distinction between raw executable code like games and a user's location data, but code and data are basically the same thing: digital information which is interpreted by a computer Lispers know this quite well, as well as to a lesser extent interpreted language programmers and any media player programmers that have been hit by code execution vulnerabilities.
The premise of course is that users do send their personal data to a company to be used somehow, but if we're being honest, that cat's already out of the bag. Simply being part of society, by definition, entails leaking/sharing personal information. Once anyone else other than yourself has the data, DRM is the only way to control the data, and DRM doesn't work.
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